The Power of Words
A description with examples of twenty types of emotional appeals, fallacious arguments, and other verbal manipulations that touch the heart and manipulate the mind.
Rhetoric and Composition
A list of online resources related to classical rhetoric, writing centers, and university rhetoric departments. Not all links are current.
Democracy: Rhetorical Texts
A catalog of links to e-texts of important speeches, largely from presidents and historic feminist figures, with research resources. Compiled by Robert Ivie of the University of Indiana.
Rhetoric and Composition Calls Fields Journals Listserves Moos Organizations Programs Terms
A portal for researchers and practitioners of Rhetoric and Composition.
Persuasion Analysis
Approaches for analyzing persuasion in advertising and political rhetoric through the Intensify/Downplay schema.
Immediacy of Rhetoric
Doctoral thesis about immediacy of the internet as a rhetorical forum.
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